Elevation of Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom is 111 m (364 ft) above sea level.

Blackburn's height from sea level is 111 metres, or 364 feet. GeoNames reads 121 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

97 m – 252 m

Mean 160 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 155 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

141st of 797

among the towns of England, and 183rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

5.4 km to the E, at 151 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through Blackburn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Blackburn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

41420WE22.9 km
West to east: from 48 m at 11 km west to 176 m at 11 km east.
41420NS22.9 km
North to south: from 181 m at 11 km north to 383 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Blackburn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Blackburn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Oswaldwistle 5.4 kmE 151 m (495 ft) +40 m
Darwen 6 kmS 176 m (577 ft) +65 m
Great Harwood 6.8 kmNE 110 m (361 ft) −1 m
Accrington 7.6 kmE 141 m (463 ft) +30 m
Haslingden 11.5 kmSE 223 m (732 ft) +112 m

Peaks and passes near Blackburn

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Blackburn is

Latitude 53.748575, longitude -2.487529. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Blackburn elevation: 111 m (364 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Blackburn's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 121 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.